Friday 5 December 2025
"Passionate Perio for the Dental Team"
Ian Dunn registered Specialist Periodontist. Inspirational Educator and gifted presenter.
Oral Cancer "What you need to know, what you need to do!"
Professor Jim McCaul will close the Study Day with the Caldwell Memorial Lecture.
We are delighted to welcome delegates to the Study Day in 2025. This year's Study Day will combine all of our customary quality educational content with an opportunity to meet with colleagues.
Main programme: Ian Dunn
Caldwell Lecture: Professor Jim McCaul
CGDent Scotland Study Day 2025 on Friday 5 December will feature Ian Dunn on Perio and Professor Jim McCaul on oral cancer. Delegates will benefit from six hours of CPDA approved lectures, a two-course lunch, an extensive tradeshow and the day will conclude with a social drinks reception.
Main Programme
Ian Dunn
Specialist Periodontist
Ian qualified from Leeds in 1998 and went into general practice in the North West. In 2001 he was awarded Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practice. In 2002 he joined the teaching staff at Liverpool Dental Hospital in the Periodontology Department where he became the Undergraduate Teaching Lead in Periodontics and a Senior Clinical Teacher in Periodontics, a role he held for 5 years until leaving that position in 2018. In 2010 he completed his MSc in Periodontology and in 2013 he was admitted to the GDC Specialist List in Periodontics. In 2023 Ian was invited to become a Fellow of the College or General Dentistry.
Ian spends three days a week in private practice in the North West of England where he takes referrals for all aspects of Periodontology. He is the British Society of Periodontology regional representative for Merseyside and Cheshire, and serves on their Council as Honorary Treasurer. In 2014 he was also elected to the BSP Faculty. He was the Deputy of the European Federation of Periodontology Communications Committee and is currently on the editorial board of Dental Update.
Ian teaches for the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons and runs their short course in Periodontics and has recently been appointed Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Periodontics at UCLAN where he helps teaching on the post grad programme.
Passionate Perio for the Dental Team
Join us for an intensive, lecture-based day that will cover all aspects of contemporary periodontal management from the latest concepts of aetiology to assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning. We will cover the S3 Treatment Guidelines and look at minimally invasive periodontics including non-surgical regeneration and MINST.
Professor Jim McCaul
OMFSurgeon at QEUH Glasgow
Professor Jim McCaul will close the Study Day with the Caldwell Memorial Lecture.
Professor Jim McCaul qualified in medicine and dentistry, both with honours, and won ten undergraduate prizes and medals prior to completing higher training in the West of Scotland. His PhD in Cancer Science was completed at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Beatson Institute, now known as the CRUK Scotland Institute.
Jim was Consultant Surgeon in Yorkshire for eight years from 2006 and then in London at The Royal Marsden Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital before moving to Scotland in 2017. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bradford Institute for Cancer Therapeutics.
With 13 national and international awards, Jim was presented with the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) President’s award for research optimising major surgery in 2012 and the BAOMS Surgery Prize 2014 in recognition of his international contribution. His team also won the BAOMS Norman Rowe Clinical Research Prize in 2014.
Jim is Chief Investigator of the CRUK Lugol's iodine in head and neck cancer surgery (LIHNCS) trial and the LISTER trial, recruiting 419 patients, an international first for a mouth cancer surgical trial. His research is in minimising impact and optimising outcomes from head and neck cancer surgery and effectively treating after-effects, such as osteoradionecrosis. His work on the human microbiome (The VOLCANIC Trial) investigates dysbiosis in the microbiota in the gut, circulation and oral cavity in oral cancer patients. He is also co-investigator in eight clinical trials in the UK and collaborates with researchers internationally.
Jim is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Surgery and IJS Case Reports, and was Associate Editor of British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery until 2014. He reviews for 14 other international medical research journals and is author of five book chapters, 105 peer reviewed research papers and more than 160 research abstracts. His first book for the open market, Face to Face was published in 2018 by Transworld (Penguin) and is an Amazon best seller.
In his private practice, Jim has a holistic approach to patients requiring all aspects of facial surgery including removal of facial lesions, skin cancer surgery, facial plastic surgery, salivary gland surgery and dentoalveolar surgery
Oral Cancer
"What you need to know, what you need to do!"
Information for In-Person Delegates
Venue and Catering Information
The event takes place at Glasgow Science Centre and during the day delegates will benefit from superb catering including a two-course lunch and post-event drinks, six hours of lectures and a 30-stand trade exhibition. There is free parking for delegates during the event.
Registration is from 8am with tea, coffee and breakfast rolls. Presentations run from 9am until 5:30pm with two coffee breaks and a two-course lunch. Following the event there will be a relaxed drinks reception until 7:00pm.